digikam

digital photo management application for KDE

Digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search and export your digital images to and from your computer. It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photographs a "snap". digiKam enables you to manage large numbers of digital photographs in albums and to organize these photographs for easy retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and sharing your images. Thus, digiKam is a formidable digital asset management (DAM) software including powerful image editing functions. An easy-to-use camera interface is provided, that will connect to your digital camera and download photographs directly into digiKam albums. More than 1000 digital cameras are supported by the gphoto2 library. Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system will interface with digiKam. digiKam incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate them, correct, enhance and alter them. The editing power can be easily extended by a set of plugins, the KDE Image Plugins Interface (manual) While digiKam remains easy to use, it provides professional level features by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available plugins, supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color management work flow. New Features of the KDE4 version: Runs on any platform that supports Qt4 and KDE4 Supports XMP metadata Reads, writes and converts into DNG format New RAW processing tool, gamma-correction in 16 bits Preview of video and audio files Database file is independent of photo libraries, enabling remote paths, multiple roots and offline archives Improved database with many more metadata that can be searched Marble integration, geographical filtering with the mouse on the map New search finds duplicates and similar images Help menu lists all RAW formats and digiKam component versions DNG, RWL, NEF and PEF RAW file can be metadata edited Usability improvements for netbooks Non-modal image editor Thumbnail bar in preview mode Live search boxes in both sidebars and main window New camera interface, capture tool, scanner interface New plugin based on lensfun for automatic lens error corrections digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations, import and export, etc. The kipi-plugins package contains many very useful extensions.

digikam-dbg

debugging symbols for digiKam